Victors for Discovery

Victors for Discovery: Biomedicine at Michigan

LSI Annual Symposium May 14-15, 2014

Two days of lectures and discussions with national leaders in pharmaceutical development, government agencies and patient care—who all spent time on U-M facultyPanel discussions on the future of biomedical research and drug discovery in the 21st century

Day 1: Wednesday, May 14

8:35 am Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences LecturerMary Sue Coleman, PhD, President, University of Michigan

8:45 am Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer:"A New Family of Kinases Important in Bone and Teeth Formation," Jack Dixon, PhDProfessor, Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego

"The Future of Biomedical Research"

Moderated by David Ginsburg, MD, James V. Neel Distinguished University Professor of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics, and Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan Medical School

Introductory Talk: "The Past is Prologue: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet"Francis S. Collins, MD, PhDDirector, National Institutes of Health

Panelists:

Jack Dixon, PhDProfessor, Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego